Senior Salesforce Technical Architect
About The Position
The Salesforce Technical Architect will serve as a strategic and hands-on technology leader responsible for architecting, evolving, and scaling Farmer Mac’s Salesforce platform to support the full lifecycle of products, customer engagement, and digital experiences. This role will lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade solutions across both internal Sales and Service Cloud applications and modernized Experience Cloud portals serving sellers, servicers, and borrowers. Aligned with Farmer Mac’s vision of Salesforce as a unified platform delivering seamless, user-friendly experiences for internal and external users, the Technical Architect will define and execute a forward-looking architecture strategy that enables scalability, flexibility, security, and high performance across multiple applications, integrations, and digital channels. This position requires extensive interaction with members of the IT team, including the Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Data Architect, Database Administrators, and technical delivery teams, other Farmer Mac business units, and occasionally external stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred
- 8+ years of experience delivering Salesforce solutions, with at least 3–5 years in a solution or technical architect role
- Proven experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect or equivalent role designing and implementing enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions
- Deep expertise across core Salesforce platforms, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud (portals for external users such as partners and customers)
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable solutions supporting complex user groups
- Demonstrated leadership experience mentoring developers, configurators, and technical team members
- Salesforce certifications strongly preferred (e.g., Certified Technical Architect (CTA), Application/System Architect, Platform Developer I/II)
- Experience leveraging Agentforce for AI enabled Salesforce native solutions
Nice To Haves
- Previous consulting experience a plus
- Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps or JIRA a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead the modernization of Farmer Mac’s Salesforce architecture, evolving legacy implementations and new build requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise solutions
- Define and own the end-to-end technical architecture for the Salesforce platform, including internal applications, portals, and external integrations
- Establish and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, and best practices across the Salesforce ecosystem
- Define the overall platform strategy, including multi-org or app considerations, data architecture, integration patterns, and application boundaries
- Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, and delivery teams to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Lead technical discovery efforts, including current-state assessments, future-state design, and solution evaluation
- Oversee the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) across multiple workstreams, including developers, configurators, QA, and DevOps/Release Management resources
- Guide development teams through solution design, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and enterprise standards
- Perform hands-on development and configuration when needed, particularly for complex or high-priority initiatives
- Establish and conduct code reviews and solution reviews to ensure quality, performance, scalability, and adherence to standards
- Define and implement robust DevOps, release management, and CI/CD processes to support continuous delivery and platform stability
- Establish environment strategy and governance, including sandbox management, refresh strategy, release pipelines, and testing environments
- Design and implement secure, scalable integration architectures across Salesforce and external systems (e.g., APIs, middleware, event-driven patterns)
- Ensure platform security and compliance through proper design of authentication, authorization, and data protection mechanisms
- Drive performance optimization, monitoring, and ongoing platform health improvements
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers, administrators, and other technical team members
- Support vendor management and third-party solution evaluation, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and long-term strategy
- Continuously evaluate new Salesforce capabilities and emerging technologies to drive innovation and platform evolution
- Tracking and proactively responding to Salesforce releases and ad hoc patches
Benefits
- Presence with Purpose work environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
